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Rosalyn Knapp
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[Poll] Anorexia and it's effect on the public
September 28, 2007 - 01:45 PM
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There has been uproar in Milan over a billboard displaying an anorexic model. The billboard's purpose is to discourage anorexia and raise awareness about the disorder, BUT fashion and polotics rarely go together. All super-skinny girls have been banned from the cat walk in Milan and the fashion industry is wanting the billboard to be taken down. What effect is this billboard having on the public at this time? And what do u think of it? Check it out!
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/26/anorexia.model/index.html?eref=edition_europe
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Mike Ter.Songu
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Re: [Poll] Anorexia and it's effect on the public
September 29, 2007 - 04:30 PM
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RosalynK wrote:
There has been uproar in Milan over a billboard displaying an anorexic model. The billboard's purpose is to discourage anorexia and raise awareness about the disorder, BUT fashion and polotics rarely go together. All super-skinny girls have been banned from the cat walk in Milan and the fashion industry is wanting the billboard to be taken down. What effect is this billboard having on the public at this time? And what do u think of it? Check it out!
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/26/anorexia.model/index.html?eref=edition_europe</span
Anorexia is one disorder that can be easily avoided if the necessary information is in place. Slim models were becoming a point of reference for millions of fashion conscious youths around the globe, without any correspondent necesarry information of what sliming down can do to ones health. Bannig slim models on runways was one right step in the right direction. The pictorial depiction of what it entails is another. So the Issue of whether the Billbaord be pulled down does not arise at all.
The model in that ad does not appear to me like a normal, very happy person. And so if I want to slim to size I will know that I risk looking like her. That should be the purpose of that ad. And in my view, it did just that.
This post was edited on: 2007-09-29 at 04:35 PM by: Mike Ter.Songu
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Melanie LeBlanc
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Re: [Poll] Anorexia and it's effect on the public
October 9, 2007 - 11:00 AM
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Well here in Toronto, I have seen some ads of anorexic girls and when I pass by I think to myself "I never want to look like that...EVER"
So by me walking by and noticing that ad then whoever was the photographer or whoever published the ad can go to sleep content and know that at least someone got the message.
But I think it depends on the ad, if it was a fashion ad, then it should be taken down but if it was an educational ad placed by the government or some sort of educational resource then I think it should stay up.
So in my opinion...it depends on the above...
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